Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro called for a dialogue with Washington on Friday. A few hours after President Donald Trump threatened by shooting down Venezuelan military aircraft, If they pose a danger to US forces. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
The tension between the two countries in the last days has increased when Pentagon accused Venezuela of the provocative flight of aircraft over the American ship in the Caribbean after the US attacked a vessel, that directed from Venezuela and allegedly transported the consignment of drugs.
“None of the differences we have and had can lead to a military conflict,” Maduro said in a message that broadcast all radio and television stations in the country. “Venezuela has always been willing to communicate, to conduct dialogue, but we require respect,”He added.
United States on Friday ordered to deploy on the island of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Sea 10 fighters F-35. From the island should help eight US ships in the Caribbean in the fight against drug cartels.
Trump increases pressure on Madura whose United States They blame the drug cartel management and doubled the reward for his catch to $ 50 million. Maduro denies these accusations. “Those news services that give him (Trump) are not true,” Maduro said, saying that Venezuela today is a country without drug production and even fighting against trading with them.
When asked what steps he will take if there are other incidents when Venezuelan aircraft will fly near US ships, Trump replied on Friday: “If they get us in a dangerous position, they will be shot down.”
Maduro condemned the accumulation of US troops as “the greatest threat to Venezuela in the last 100 years”. He said his country was ready for “armed struggle to defend the national territory”. Venezuela mobilized its army, which has approximately 340,000 members, as well as midfielder, who, according to Madur, are more than eight million.
